Quotes About Retrospection

If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were faster at that - like, I could understand things while they're happening - but I always have to read the whole book and write the entire paper before I even know what the hell I'm thinking.

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

My best critic is me, too late.

The time to think about personal achievement is at the end of your career.

I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There's no way I would play now rather than the era I played in. We had a life.

My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version—but only if it's funnier.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Es un tipo de memoria muy pobre la que solo funciona hacia atrás

October is a month of introspection and retrospection, of taking stock.

I have no desire to keep playing international Test cricket, and not a day has gone by that I've regretted retiring.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

I DON'T KNOW how it is best to put this thing down – whether it would be better to try and tell the story from the beginning, as if it were a story; or whether to tell it from this distance of time, as it reached me from the lips of Leonora or from those of Edward himself.

Everyone is looking up toward us, but I am looking back.

The hall of fame is something you do when you look back at the end of your career, not in the middle of it.

Think back, pilgrim… Remember?